Man Bait (The Last Page, 1952)

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Man Bait is a lesser-known film that really shouldn’t be. It’s director Terence Fisher’s first movie for Hammer Films, marking the beginning of a legendary career he’d have with the studio. It’s one of the first films made at Bray Studios, having just been converted to a movie studio a few months prior, and also the first proper American release for British sexpot Diana Dors, and is one of the better entries in the tight little British thriller market of the 1950s, short and sturdy black-and-white movies made on small budgets, meant to be exported to the U.S.

The 27% Club, Or: Lizard People, The Crazification Factor, and Me

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All this is to say that I firmly believe that on any given topic, not just political topics, roughly one-third of Americans are functionally crazy, and the fact that there are no studies to prove this does not dissuade me from this opinion, which probably makes it a functionally crazy opinion in and of itself. This delights me; it almost certainly does not delight you, but that’s okay.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) for The Adventure-a-Thon

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In 2285, an unaware U.S.S. Reliant stumbles across genetically created superbeing Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán) and his surviving followers, marooned on a hostile planet for 15 years as punishment for terrorizing the U.S.S. Enterprise and its crew. Khan and his subjects were exiled to the conveniently located Ceti Alpha V by Enterprise Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), and thanks to typical military bureaucracy, no one thought to check on Khan after he was left on the planet, not even to make sure he was still safely contained and no longer wreaking havoc. The already difficult Ceti Alpha V had been made nearly uninhabitable about six months after Khan had been left there, thanks to Ceti Alpha VI exploding, as both planets and Spinal Tap drummers tend to do.

Announcing The Adventure-A-Thon, Hosted by Cinematic Catharsis and RealWeegieMidget

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It’s time to announce that She Blogged By Night is joining The Adventure-A-Thon, hosted by our good pal Barry at Cinematic Catharsis and new blog friend Gill at RealWeegieMidget Reviews! I’m absolutely tickled and delighted to be part of what looks like a really killer line-up of films, scheduled for May 2nd through May 4th.

Classic Amiga Game Review: It Came from the Desert (1989)

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Based loosely on dozens of 1950s American sci fi thrillers, especially the 1954 mutant-ant classic “Them!”, It Came from the Desert challenges both your mind and your might. When you boot up the game, a gorgeous red-orange desert panorama scrolls by as a narrator warns that, because man has meddled where he should not have, this desert will become living proof that the Biblical prophesy “the meek shall inherit the earth” is about to come true.

Band of Angels (1957)

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Band of Angels contains some of the most laughable dialogue of the 1950s, pseudo-epic puffery complete with a star-studded cast and a wardrobe budget exceeding the entire annual income of Guam. Scored by Max Steiner and directed by the legendary Raoul Walsh, one would think that this movie could at least have some entertainment value, but it struggles to provide even that.

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